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"As we focus on climate change, we must also act decisively to protect
the living world while we still have time. It would be humanity’s
ultimate achievement." - E.O. Wilson
Nevada is poised to vote on whether to increase its
renewable portfolio standard (RPS) - the share of electricity required to come
from renewable sources - to 50% by the year 2030, without any plan for
protecting Nevada's increasingly vulnerable wildlands. An increased RPS
without corresponding plans to protect wildlands is sure to spur a
second rush of solar and wind projects, but continuing to burn fossil
fuels will compound the ongoing harmful effects of climate change on
that same landscape. A more sensible path - providing stronger
incentives for solar on rooftops and over parking lots and diverting
larger projects to already-disturbed lands - has eluded the state's
policymakers and environmental groups.
The
ballot measure - Question 6 - will essentially authorize Nevada's…